Agile Coach, Trainer and Consultant

Incrementor - Planning Poker Cards

Jochen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:18:03 +0000

During our Scrum courses, many students asked for Planning Poker cards. Not only does each deck entertain teams of up to 7 team members, but has also cards reserved for game instructions and our Scrum Quick Reference (Roles, Artifacts and Activities). Every course attendee will receive one of these decks. Planning Poker is a registered trademark of Mountain Goat Software.

Media, Social Networking

Jochen — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:02:56 +0000

A few updates in how I keep everyone in the loop about Agile NYC events. I just released two more episodes of the Agile NYC Podcast. Anupam Kundu and Serena Ness. Also just did a recording with Adam Roberts from MYV Networks which will be released shortly. It will be a busy recording schedule with all the speakers from the Agile Day 2010.

You can also follow the Twitter updates and tweet while Agile NYC events are in session. Check Twitter

On the “About Us” page of Agile NYC, I posted a few pictures from previous AGILE NYC user group meetings.

1st AGILE NYC DAY 2010

Jochen — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:02:27 +0000

As the organizer of the Agile New York City user group, we are putting together a 1-day conference day in Manhattan, Wednesday September 15th. Throughout the past 3 years, we had monthly meetings with very interesting topics. These monthly events are all free events.
This September, we will try something new. We are putting together a condensed full-day conference day at Times Square (Executive Conference Center) which consists of a two-track presentation approach in the morning and an open space conference in the afternoon. We have secured a very convenient location with room for 120 participants, 4 sponsors, a keynote, open space facilitators and speakers for the track. Lunch will be served. Registration for this event has begun.

Like our free monthly events, this is a not-for-profit event, but to cover rent and food we decided to charge a small cover fee of $95 for the entire conference day. As usual, please visit AGILE NYC for more information about our monthly user group meetings as well as this 1-day agile conference day.

Date Change Ken Schwaber Talk at Agile NYC

Jochen — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:09:52 +0000

Ken Schwaber’s visit and talk at Agile NYC has changed to Wednesday 11/3/2010. Originally we had Ken scheduled a day earlier but realized that the 2nd of November will be a busy day/evening for everyone with election day. We will start enrollment for his talk soon. As usual, please check Agile NYC for latest news and registration.

Ken Schwaber at Agile New York City (NYC)

Jochen — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:19:47 +0000

Mark your calendars! Ken Schwaber will present at Agile NYC 11/2/2010. More details about his topic soon, enrollment will open during summer.

Agile NYC Podcast

Jochen — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:16:37 +0000

I began releasing short conversations with our upcoming speakers as podcasts. If you are interested in the our events, topics and speakers please subscribe in iTunes by clicking here: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/agile-nyc/id376517860 or by searching with the keywords “agile nyc”. Our first episode was just released and the second will follow shortly.
In some instances we might record the podcast after the presentation. That is primarily for logistical and timing reasons. Hope you enjoy the idea.

Agile NYC “Upcoming Events June, July, September, October and November”

Jochen — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:33:48 +0000

We have a great program lined-up before the summer break as well as the second half of 2010. For example, Rob Purdie will present an experience report of the agile transformation at the Economist 6/23 at LimeWire New York. We will announce July shortly which is currently in the planning. August is summer break where agile enthusiasts gather in Orlando this year. In the evening of 9/22 Michael Spayd will present his topic “”Blueprint for an Agile Enterprise: Plans, Tools &Techniques for Building a Human Enterprise” which is a talk he will give at Agile2010 in Orlando as well. In October, Scott Ambler is in town and he will speak Tuesday evening 10/18. In November, we welcome back Amr Elssamadisy who will share his presentation “Scaling Up by Scaling Down: Successful Agile Adoption in the Large by Focusing on the Individual” with us.

We are working on scheduling additional sessions using different formats. Registrations are open to the events mentioned above, but PLEASE register ONLY if you will be at the event. Casual registrations have the opposite effect. It will make planning harder, you will take a seat from someone who would like to join and most importantly the speakers put a lot of effort into this. We want to “sell” every seat in the house for them as we did in the past events. Spread the word and stay tuned about news and updates at www.agilenyc.org.

APLN NYC is now AgileNYC

Jochen — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:19:13 +0000

Two months ago the organizers of APLN-NYC decided to rename the agile user group to AgileNYC (http://www.agilenyc.org). Although we are still the local chapter for APLN in the NYC metro area, the renaming will help us in multiple ways to grow on the success of this local chapter. Especially the “P” and “L” in APLN limited us (the organizers) to attract professionals and topics other than project managers. Although we always intended it to be a diverse group with diverse set of topics, AgileNYC will better define our group going forward.
We will continue to host our monthly face-to-face meetings, but will also experiment with new formats in the second half of 2010 (e.g. lightning talks and a potential 1-day conference). Please reach out to the organizers if you have questions or comments.

Agile CT

Jochen — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:24:41 +0000

I will present at the agile user group in Hartford, CT (Agile CT) on June 1st and share my experiences from agile adoptions in the media industry. Stay tuned.

PMI Westchester Professional Development Day 4/24/2010

Jochen — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:04:12 +0000

I will be presenting at the Professional Development Day at PMI Westchester this coming Saturday 4/24.
Please visit www.pmiwestchester.org for more details of the program and logistics.